like other people. At last, in the middle of the night, he awoke
to his former consciousness, and finding himself in a strange place,
supposed he had made a mistake and might be taken for a burglar. He was
found in a state of great alarm by his neighbors, to whom he stated
that he was a minister, and that his home was in Rhode Island. His
friends were sent for and recognized him, and he returned to his home
after an absence of two years of absolutely foreign existence. A most
careful investigation of the case was made on behalf of the London
Society for Psychical Research.

An exhaustive paper on this subject, written by Richard Hodgson in the
proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, states that Mr.
Bourne had in early life shown a tendency to abnormal psychic
conditions; but he had never before engaged in trade, and nothing could
be remembered which would explain why he had assumed the name A. J.
Brown, under which he did business. He had, however, been hypnotized
when young and made to assume various characters on the stage, and it
is possible that the name A. J. Brown was then suggested to him, the
name resting in his memory, to be revived and resumed when he again
went into a hypnotic trance.

Alfred Binet describes a case somewhat similar to that of Mary
Reynolds: "Felida, a seamstress, from 1858 up to the present time (she
is still living) has been under the care of a physician named Azam in
Bordeaux. Her normal, or at least her usual, disposition when he first
met her was one of melancholy and disinclination to talk, conjoined
with eagerness for work. Nevertheless her actions and her answers to
all questions were found to be perfectly rational. Almost every day she
passed into a second state. Suddenly and without the slightest
premonition save a violent pain in the temples she would fall into a
profound slumber-like languor, from which she would awake in a few
moments a totally different being. She was now as gay and cheery as she
had formerly been morose. Her imagination was over-excited. Instead of
being indifferent to everything, she had become alive to excess. In
this state she remembered everything that had happened in the other
similar states that had preceded it, and also during her normal life.
But when at the end of an hour or two the languor reappeared, and she
returned to her normal melancholy state, she could not recall anything
that had happened in her second, or joyous, stage. One day